Guide to Palearctic Flea Beetle Genera
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)

Ophrida Chapuis

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Ophrida Chapuis, 1875:27, 31 (type species Ophrida guttata Chapuis, 1875, Malakka, by monotypy). - Heikertinger, 1924a:50, 53. - Heikertinger & Csiki in Junk, 1940:415. - Maulik, 1926:175, 228. - Chen, 1933:216. - Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963:744, 787. - Scherer, 1969:171. - Konstantinov & Vandenberg, 1996:344.

Distribution: The majority of species occur in the Oriental region (China, India, Burma, Vietnam, Phillipine Islands, Sumatra, Java, New Guinea).

Statistics: 1 species in Palearctic region, about 12 species worldwide.

Host Plants: Garuga, Canarium (Medvedev & Dan Tkhi Dap 1982).

Diagnosis: Body large to very large, elongate, convex from lateral view. Color yellow to dark reddish brown, usually with dark spots on elytron.
Head exactly as in Podontia, but eyes very narrow.
Pronotum wide, deeply emarginate anteriorly, with several longitudinal impressions and rows of deep punctures. Procoxal cavity closed behind. Intercoxal prosternal process more or less narrow, convex, widely explanate posteriorly. Anterior part of prosternal suture deeply concave, sometimes with marginal tooth.
Elytra oval, convex, with well developed humeral calli. Elytral punctures arranged in striae; interspaces more or less wide, slightly convex. Epipleuron subhorizontal, concave.
Metafemur with low, obtuse tooth before apex. Metatibia canaliculate, not straight, with low obtuse tooth beyond middle, followed by shallow excavation having marginal row of bristles. Metatibial spine situated laterally. First metatarsal segment shorter than following two segments combined. Third metatarsal segment wide.

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